Education

2023 • MFA, Studio Art/Sculpture, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY

2020 • BA, Studio Art/Sculpture and Sociology/Anthropology Minor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Professional Experience

2021-22 • Instructor of Record, SUNY New Paltz, NY 
(ARS170 Intro to Sculpture/ARS270 Basic Sculpture)

2021 • Internship of College Teaching, Prof. Michael Asbil, SUNY New Paltz, NY
(ARS170 Intro to Sculpture/ARS270 Basic Sculpture)

2018-20 • Sculpture Course Assistant, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 
(ARTS 265 Sculpture/Metal, ARTS 266 Sculpture/Wood)

Awards/Grants/Fellowship

2020 • Manifest Grand Jury Prize Finalist, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2020 • Senior Exhibition Materials Grant, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2020 • Frances Chubb Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 

2019 • Best of Show Award, Rites of Passage, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2019 • Department of Art and Art History Merit Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2018 • Honorary Mention, Art Student Annual, Juror Anida Yoeu Ali, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2018 • Vivian Willits Memorial Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2018 • Bill Colby Art Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2017 • Department of Art and Art History Merit Art Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

2016-20 • Founders Award Scholarship, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Exhibition Record

2022 • Unhomely, Unison Art Center Paradies, New Paltz, NY

2022 • Show Up!, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY

2022 • An/AEsthetics, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Roskill Art Farm, Rosendale, NY

2022 • SHELTER, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at Byrdcliffe’s Historic White Pines, Woodstock, NY 

2022 • Edible Bodies: Outdoor Food Performances and Soup Planting, Permanent Installation, Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab, New Paltz, NY

2022 • (d)evolve tanthem, Curator Daniel Kuzinez and Devon Wilson, Brooklyn, NY 

2022 • Dialogues of Form: Sculptural Conversations, Curator Joe Kattou and 

Michael Fortenberry, SUNY New Paltz Fine Art Building, New Paltz, NY

2021 • Solo Exhibition, Transfer Warehouse, Telluride Art District, Telluride, CO

2020 • Senior Show [virtual], Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA (catalogue)

2020 • Art Student Annual, Juror Ellen Ito, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget 

Sound, Tacoma, WA

2019 • Rites of Passage, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH,  

2019 • Art Student Annual, Juror Heather Joy, Kittredge Gallery, University of 

Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 

2018 • Ribbon, Wheelock Student Center, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 

2018 • Art Student Annual, Juror Anida Yoeu Ali, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 

2017 • Art Student Annual, Juror Sharon Arnold, Kittredge Gallery, Tacoma, WA 

Collections

University of Puget Sound Private Collection, Tacoma, WA

Glasshouse Art.Life.Lab Permanent Installation, New Paltz, NY

Website Publications

“‘Shelter’ at White Pines: A Woodstock exhibition that’s a commentary on mankind's interaction with nature”
Lynn Woods, Hudson Valley One, July 22, 2022  https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2022/07/03/shelter-at-white-pines/

“Featured Artist: Michael Fortenberry”
Telluride Arts District, Featured Artist Interviews, September 21, 2021 https://www.telluridearts.org/featuredartists/2021/9/21/featured-artist-michael-fortenberry

“A historic reimagining: New vision for Transfer Warehouse will be unveiled Wednesday”
Leslie Vreeland, Telluride News, July 2021
https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_160b6c44-e119-11eb-a5f4-27b73d5d630e.html

“Season 15; Exhibitions in the Gallery”
Manifest Gallery, September 2018 - August 2019 http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule15.html

Blogs

Krista Johnson, “Spaceshift? Earthship? Compost Bin?” Department of Art and Art 

History, University of Puget Sound, November 25, 2019, 

https://blogs.pugetsound.edu/art/2019/11/25/spaceship-earthship-compost-bin/

Technical Abilities

Instructor of Record, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY 

Woodshop and Sculpture Course Assistant, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Extensive operational, safety, and mechanical knowledge of woodworking power tools, table, chop saw, jig and bandsaws, planer, CNC, drills, routers, sanders, grinders, and hand tools.

Instructor of Record, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

Metalshop and Sculpture Course Assistant, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA Extensive operational, safety, and mechanical knowledge of tools and machinery in a metal shop; CNC plasma cutter, mig-welder, drill-press, chop saw, plasma table cutter, cutting-torch, grinder cutting/sanding discs, and radial sander.

Digital Fabrication 

CAD; Rhino, Autodesk Fusion 360, file to machine processing, Adobe Photoshop